#heraldic beasts

[swordfangs]

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔅𝔩𝔞𝔡𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔄𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔩𝔬𝔫

[screampotato]

Some people find feathered raptors a bit disappointing because they're just like big birds. I don't see that at all, I think they're awesome, like some kind of weird heraldic beast.

[heraldicbeast]

More development work on this 11th century lettering, based on a tomb in my hometwon. And I'm still seriously thinking about doing a set of cards. I've been studying Heraldic Art at college for two years now, it would seem the perfect project to take advantage of that.

[citrusfoam]

"A parade of heraldic beasts to celebrate the approaching season"

[cryptids-of-the-world]

The Calygreyhound is a Chimera-like Heraldic Beast found in medieval mythology. The Calygreyhound is described as a Chimera-like creature with the head of a cat, a lion’s tail,the body of an antelope, the front kegs of an eagle, and the hid legs of a bull though sometimes it is depicted as having the hindquarters of a fish and is said to be very fast. The Calygreyhound is the Heraldic Beast of the De Vere family who were the Earls of Oxford.

Art by: https://www.deviantart.com/ns-wen

[we-are-knight]

Saber Lion by koutanagamori

[voicesofchaos]

kah-hoa-raverkeinst said: . Say, out of everyone in Zexal, if you could do a TOP 3 decks of most balanced/fun gimmick deck how would you go about it?

Umm this is kind of a hard question to answer. “most balanced” and “fun gimmick” are two completely different qualities LOL I love analysing characters and deck so much so I really like these kind of questions but honestly.... I am really bias and can’t think objectively about this. No matter how hard I think about it I keep coming back to the same 3. Which 2 of them I play with in real life and the third I always wanted to make but was always lacking certain cards. So this list is going to suck but here we go.

Kaito - Photon/Galaxy deck: Since his very first appearance I have loved Kaito’s deck. As I’ve said I memorized kaito’s entire first 2 turns card by card of his duel against Yuma because the duel blew me away! At its core, this deck is extremely simple, get out Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon. But for some reason I just like the variety and spice it has to how you do that and how you upgrade it. Lots of boss monsters have upgraded form (I wrote a whole guide I never finished about it) but I find that GEPD just has very interesting forms from Neo to #62 to Full-Armor to #95 and then now Arc-V gave us more variety too. A straightforward but one powerful enough to be deemed worthy of a rival-type character

IV - Gimmick Puppet: I have a thing for puppets so of course i love IV’s creepy archtype. As with Kaito’s deck, this deck aims to summon level 8 monsters which as you can tell is something I really like doing! This deck also provides some nice variety as you have #15, #40 , and #88 to choose from and each has a chaos upgrade! Also it has access to #22 which packs a surprise punch! Also you can even rank-up into his brother’s card #9. I think the only thing I wish is that one card had a puppet-like effect of taking control of an opponent’s monster. His monsters look like puppets but don’t mechanically feel like them.

Tron - Heraldic Beasts: I jsut find this deck really fun to play, mostly because of how reuseable Leo. Their effects are really interesting in supporting Xyz monsters. The bid drawback is that their boss monsters are really anti-Xyz so if you opponent doesn’t play Xyz or just doesn’t have one out currently then they are a lot weaker sadly but still a lot of fun. #C69 is an insane card! My real life version of the deck is kind of a Tron/Yuma/Gauche mix as I splash #39 evolutions and a few Heroic monsters.

[heraldicbeast]

I Think I'm Going To Buy A Medieval Helmet

It might sound strange — I'm not sure what strange is anymore — but I have been obsessing over this. I am teetering on the brink of spending a lot of money on a beautiful Hand-Made-By-An-Artisan-Armourer Medieval Knights Helmet.

You're probably thinking, 'What the actual fuck is he going on about now' but bear with me.

It's a very special object, made by one of the best modern armourers in the world. It's a reproduction of a Frog-mouth Helm, used for jousting tournaments from around 1400 to 1520. It's the assigned Helm of the Gentleman, or Esquire, in English Heraldry. Aesthetically, it has a smooth and streamlined beauty redolent of a shark. Its steely, late-medieval aesthetic is a perfect evolution, an iterative statement in form, finally and perfectly aligning with function.

My justification for this ludicrous extravagance has been that it's a beautiful object, will be a useful reference for my Heraldic Art as it evolves, and will make a lovely, shiny display piece in my home. But I think I've figured out exactly what underpins this and why I want one.

When I was a kid, back in the mists of time, my favourite animated show on TV here in England was a delightful show called Mr Benn. The show's charming premise was simple: it followed the adventures of a man named Mr Benn. Each episode begins with Mr Benn visiting a mysterious costume shop, where a shopkeeper magically appears and offers him a new costume to try on. It could, for example, be an Astronaut, Pirate, or Cowboy outfit. In fact, I now distinctly remember one episode in which he dressed up as a Knight! After changing, he steps through a magic door and is transported to a fantastical world matching his outfit.

Today, I was struck by the comical realisation that my desire for this object was a throwback to my childhood as much as anything else — my subconscious wish to manifest a simple, carefree, child-like state in which I embarked on such adventures myself with trusty steeds, fellow knights, fire-breathing dragons, fair maidens, the whole Medieval shebang.

So much of our creative process is about play, and, in the best possible sense, I would describe many creative people I meet as having a perky and spirited innocence about them and a child-like curiosity about the world. In fact, speaking to world-class creatives at conferences, I have occasionally positively felt like a nine-year-old in a school playground chatting to another nine-year-old. It's always incredible fun.

Perhaps Picasso was alluding to this when he said, "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." Many of us forget how to play as adults. Our child-like sense of wonder and authenticity of expression is stifled as we conform to society's expectations. My conclusion is, "Don't forget to play; your life will be richer for it."

Anyway, it might be another emerging mid-life crisis—my eighth, if it were—but I've decided as I type this that I will buy the bloody thing.